I am getting a new laptop and I want to make sure it can run Resolve 14. I am assuming there isn't a config guide for 14 since it's still in beta? What kind of graphics card is mandatory to run resolve 14 on a laptop? Thank you for your help.

Same rules apply to v14 as for previous. As many CUDA cores as possible, with lot of RAM. Simple as this.There are only few laptops which are sort of Resolve friendly. Look at gaming machines with GTX 1080 cards. Overall laptop is not Resolve friendly machine.Search forum as this has ben discussed many times- don't think v14 changes anything here.

Stay away from Quadros- crazy expensive and not as good for Resolve as GTX 1080. You need really top end Quadro models to make Resolve happy and these cost fortune. Resolve likes CUDA cores.K5100m is not bad, but it's not crazy good either. Should be good for HD I assume.

Yeah... stay away from quadro... at least simple quadro. I have a quadro 6000 card and is stinks. On my lenovo y700 i have a gtx 960m and is working perfect... On desktop with quadro 6000 dvr14 crash on start... Maybe someone who have a quadro m6000 or p6000 can tell us more about that

Andrew Kolakowski wrote:Stay away from Quadros- crazy expensive and not as good for Resolve as GTX 1080. You need really top end Quadro models to make Resolve happy and these cost fortune. Resolve likes CUDA cores.K5100m is not bad, but it's not crazy good either. Should be good for HD I assume.

I am getting a new laptop and I want to make sure it can run Resolve 14. I am assuming there isn't a config guide for 14 since it's still in beta? What kind of graphics card is mandatory to run resolve 14 on a laptop? Thank you for your help.

Are you looking for the laptop for editing or for grading?

Resolve 14 will work pretty well on laptops. If you are considering a mac laptop, the 2016 15" MacBook Pro with 4GB VRAM and AMD GPU is really powerful.

Michael (or any other user), did you have success using the MSI 14inch GS43VR-6RE-Phantom-Pro laptop with GeForce® GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 graphics card? I am looking to use Resolve 14 and I too am searching for the best laptop to run the software! Unfortunately I am not ready for a custom build at this time, please advise and thanks!

I am planning on upgrading the ram to 32gb and getting a 1tb SSD. Any thoughts on how Resolve would perform on this machine?

Possibly look at the Gigabyte Aero 15. It has an Xrite Pantone approved screen. Also there are 2 M.2 slots so you can put two 512gig SSDs in instead of one 1TB drive. As to how it will perform someone will have to give it a serious try and report back. They've only been around a short while.

Tony Charles wrote:Michael (or any other user), did you have success using the MSI 14inch GS43VR-6RE-Phantom-Pro laptop with GeForce® GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 graphics card? I am looking to use Resolve 14 and I too am searching for the best laptop to run the software! Unfortunately I am not ready for a custom build at this time, please advise and thanks!

I did use the MSI 14inch GS43VR with Resolve and it performed really well but I returned the laptop. There was an unacceptable amount of screen bleed and it runs really hot. Now I am considering getting the Gigabyte Aero15 or the 14inch RazerBlade.

Thank you very much for your feedback. Currently I use HP Z820 with Quadro K2000 (2gb). I did not start editing till now. But, I am thinking to buy Zotac geforce gtx 1080 (founder edition). So far I know from different threads, a strong single GPU works fine with Resolve 14 version. So I am thinking to upgrade my PC with gtx 1080. But is there any way to make my old one (Quadro K2000) useful rather than throwing it out? According to the Resolve 12.5 version, one gpu only for display monitor was recommended besides the strong one if I understand correctly. But not quite sure, if it is also applicable for Resolve 14 version as well. As a note, I operate BMCC-mft.

I'm going to download the free version of Resolve 14, primarily for editing in HD (not 4K), but perhaps also for grading.I have a limited budget but want to buy the best possible Mac between £1500 and £2000 (absolute limit) that I'll be able to use without too much twiddling thumbs waiting for rendering, etc.

So far, no one outside of this forum has really been able to suggest a suitable Mac for the price (even a so-called 'professional' supplier wasn't sure what a GPU was.)

I've heard that I should be using SSD rather than HD drives, and at least 16GB of RAM, and possibly multi-cores (my brain has already started getting confused.) That's all I know. I have a decent monitor and speaker already, it's just the Mac and possibly external storage I need.

Please, could someone suggest a Mac setup I can comfortable get away with, within the budget, and possibly a suggestion of where to buy (I'm in the Midlands, U.K.)

In 2014, when this was a supported system, we recommended slot 1 be used for the DeckLink card, since that's a x8 slot. Slot 6 is a x16 slot, and would want to be reserved for something that needs 16 lanes, like a GPU card.

If you have something in slot 1, and slot 6 is available, that should be fine.

First post for me in this forum. I think Resolve 14 is awesome, the only thing I have found is how much it lags when I am using playback in the edit mode. Here is my laptop, should Resolve struggle with this laptop?ASUS ROG Strix GL702VM-DB74 Gaming Laptop Intel Core i7 6700HQ (2.6 GHz) 16 GB Memory1 TB HDD 256 GB SSD NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 17.3" FHD 1920 x 1080 Windows 10 Home 64-Bit

Dwaine Maggart wrote:In 2014, when this was a supported system, we recommended slot 1 be used for the DeckLink card, since that's a x8 slot. Slot 6 is a x16 slot, and would want to be reserved for something that needs 16 lanes, like a GPU card.

If you have something in slot 1, and slot 6 is available, that should be fine.

Thank you very much Dwaine Maggart. My both slots (1 and 6) are available and I just installed my decklink card in slot 6. Hope it is alright. Also I would like to ask you if it is possible to use just one monitor as a GUI and grading at the same time? I know that Decklink card allows me to see the full screen. So what I meant is if I can edit my footage and at the same time I can see the footage (of course not in full screen ) via Decklink card on the same display? Thank you very much again for your help.

rick.lang wrote:There is a Resolve Configuration Guide that can be downloaded from the BMD Support webpage.

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Thank you Rick, but I know there's a configuration guide available. What I wanted to know is how can I improve the performances of this PC without spending much more money: if there was a single component you would change, increasing the expense by 100€, what would you do?

Unfortunately the Configuration guide is already dated. We're in the era of 16+ cores, of overclocked Threadrippers and i9s and their respective x399 and x299 main boards with 60+4 and 44 lanes running rings around the machines so beloved by the authors of the Configuration guide.

Alessandro, you did ask about the minimum requirements to edit 4K. If I was capturing 4K video, the first step would be to generate Optimized Media in 2K or smaller resolution and Edit happily with that (if you’re not doing VFX and compositing).

When you Deliver your output, you can generate the output from your original media. So save the 100€ and adopt a workflow that works with your current resources.

For editing 1080p mostly, but soon and more frequently 4k, does the workflow in DR14 benefit more from a GPU that has greater on-board memory or from one that has more cuda cores (all other requirements being equal)? I have a a few choices that include a GTX 1070 (6GB/1920 CUDA Cores), GTX 1080 (8GB/2560 CUDA Cores), and a GTX 980TI card (6GB/2816 CUDA cores).

New forum member. Embarrassed to say I've dropped a huge boo boo. I bought a new Macbook Pro 15" laptop specifically with using Da Vinci Resolve 14 (free edition) in mind but went for a late 2016 model rather than the 2017 macbooks as didn't imagine that the spec could possibly be insufficient. 2.7 GHz i7 quad with 16Gb RAM, 512Gb SSD, but alas only 2Gb of graphic memory. I now see that 4Gb graphics is the minimum spec for Resolve. Is it worth me even trying to install and give it a go or am I scuppered?

I have power browsed the Configuration Guide but just want to be sure if the Intel NUC Skull Canyon NUC6i7KYK Intel® Core™ i7-6770HQIntel® Iris™ Pro16 GB DDR4 Memory256 GB SSD,

I'm contemplating purchasing is enough to run Resolve 14. I have downloaded Resolve 14 on my low spec 5yr old laptop AMD A4, 10GB RAM and it does run the program but I havent done any meaningful edit as I'm just starting the tutorials on youtube. I am aware of hardwares that have a dedicated GPU which seems to be recommended for Resolve.

Lastly, I read that Win 10 Pro is the requirement but my low spec laptop runs on Win 10 Home and it does run Resolve 14.

Sorry for the bump, but I'm looking to upgrade my card. I currently have a Nvidia GTX 970 4GB. However, particularly when using Neat Video (even with a 1080 timeline) or working in UHD or higher timelines, I'm frequently getting "out of GPU memory" errors. Sometimes Neat Video doesn't work when I try to go into its settings, stating that it did not receive a frame from Resolve. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Since it's pretty important to have a higher res for using Neat Video, I can't really use low res proxies for determining noise.

Does anyone have any recommendations on an 8GB card for $400 or less? Is it important that it has CUDA cores? A Radeon 580 8GB is about $100 cheaper than the GTX 1070 Ti but obviously doesn't have CUDA.

While I'd always second the upgrade to Studio, Neatvideo is still ahead of Resolve's noise reduction.

Yes, with the recent changes and very careful fine tuning Resolve's combination of spatial and temporal filtering comes close, but on very critical shots NV is still ahead. Plus, it's capability of building noise profiles makes it easier and faster to fine-tune it when you are under pressure.

That said, I have no problems using NV for UHD with a temporal radius of 2 on my decent OpenCL Radeon 580 – no CUDA at all. How high is your radius? Did you let Neatvideo optimize it's settings (under Preferences -> Performance) ?